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Parked in woods just beyond water works &lpar;11&colon;05&rpar;&period; Walked towards dam then took faint track up hill to wind farm road above&period; Followed this to col then along the ridge through the windmills to just beyond Wedder Hill&period; Then path along fence led along ridge to road SE of summit and past smaller windmills to trig&period; Back same route&period; Fair views&comma; occasional drizzle&period; Finish 14&colon;20&period; Fortunately I like windmills &lpar;or at least what they're for&rpar; and they provided an easy route&period;

dbb

30/07/2019

With Rob

Lynfa Penygarn

07/07/2019

Solo trip to wind farm central&period; Bright and breezy&period; Why they had to plough up most of the surrounding peat in this particular wind farm escapes me&period;

Final hill in a good walk from Blackcraig Farm including Blackcraig&comma; Blacklorg Alwhat and Alhang&period; Certainly lived up to it's name&period;

MichaelF

27/03/2019

Parked in front of large green prefab in Craigdarroch & up Struther's Brae & Black Hill&period; From Black Hill&comma; continued along the wind farm track to the most southerly turbine & the end of the track at 630022 - SSW along fence line to the adjoining wind farm & a short walk along track before heading up to trig point&period; Reverse to junction at 625040 & then followed track back to Craigdarroch&period; &lpar;S&rpar;

Driven in same as Carole Engel&comma; so short hoof up to top&period; 1200th HuMP summit&period;
&NewLine;Deeply poignant day&period; Four of us met for the height checking of Dugland to confirm Alan Dawson's previous survey & its Re-instatement as a Donald top and lunchtime blether over tea and coffee in Norman Wares camper van&period; David Batty collapsed and died on his walk out east back to his car&period;

Solo&comma; P at Afton WTP and walked up signed path on R to meet construction roads of expanded Windfarm&colon; spoke with manager who advised route to WS &lpar;OS map is completly out-of-date&rpar; over Lamb Hill and Wedder Hill on wide tracks&period; Found path over Millaneoch Hill&comma; col with wooden gate and up to ridge&comma; turning R to reach trig pillar of WS&period; Threat of rain which didn't come to much&period; Returned to col to turn SE down to boggy col with Alhang&period; First visit to WS was on 28&sol;01&sol;2006 with Jackie and the Beatties&comma; coming from Dalquairn up SE ridge&period;

jacobus

20/08/2018

Final hill in circuit of Afton water - down from Alhang along the fence to col&comma; then up diagonally left &lpar;about West I think&rpar; to reach fence line over to summit&period; Beware the electric fence close to the summit&period; Summit is amongst the Wind farm&comma; with a trig point&period; Descended through a forest ride to nearest track which led us down through wind farm and back to reservoir&period; Forest ride was very steep but got you onto the tracks quickly&period; Nicer way would be over Webber hill with the views &lpar;if you like wind farms&excl;&excl;&rpar;

From Afton CP via William's Castle&comma; then Black Hill&comma; Wedder Hill&comma; Millaneoch Hill&comma; Windy Standard&comma; Jedburgh Knees&comma; Trostan Hill&comma; Dugland&comma; across the Clennoch Burn to Keoch Rig and return&period; Afton is now surrounded by the sprawling and expanding ugliness of Brocklog Rig wind farm&period; To add insult to injury&comma; construction workers were putting up a radio mast on the summit of Keoch Rig as I arrived

Nick Down1

24/03/2018

From nr&period; Darnscaw&comma; up from the west&comma; down to the north

quadbarrel

03/12/2017

First of five Donalds&period; Warm and sunny&period; Lots of construction traffic and noise&period;

Play2End

09/08/2017

Circuit of Afton reservoir&period;

Grinner

28/08/2016

ghaley

21/08/2016

On a circuit of the Afton Hills&period; Dry&comma; reasonable visibility&period; 90 minutes to the top from the road end&period;

Roblex

05/08/2016

From Alhang&period; Part of an 11 summit clockwise circuit of Glen Afton&period; On to Milaneoch Hill&period;

Last time I was on Windy Standard the mist was so thick i could hardly read the FB&semi; today the panorama was glorious&period; North to Ben Lomond&comma; West to Ailsa Craig&comma; South to Skiddaw plus a myriad of SU hills beyond the Lowther golf ball&period; On way to final xDTs from Glen Afton&period;

From Glen Afton Water works&comma;&lpar;car park still closed&rpar; via road all the way to Jedburgh Knees via forest ride &lpar;NS 615030&rpar; then along through the windmills to the summit&period; No wind nothing moving&period; Return same route

GmacT

16/04/2015

From Glen Afton Water works&comma; via road above&period; All the way to Jedburgh Knees&comma; then back via Wedder hill &lpar;s5D&rpar;&period; Cool and breezy&period;

iangalbraith

14/09/2014

See Cairnsmore of Carsphaitn&period;

dickscroop

08/06/2014

self

davidsbatty

29/04/2014

From Glen Afton water works&comma; a dull winter day with cloud coming and going&period; Soft snow underfoot&period;

neimcv

14/01/2014

MC alone

Martin66

06/08/2013

Trostan Hill&comma; Windy Standard&comma; Dugland&comma; from Water of Deugh

borderterrier

15/06/2013

W Jenx from Afton reservoir car park &lpar;closed due to tree fall but still space nearby&rpar;&period; Track to Black Hill then fence line around forest to the travesty that's the windfarmed top&period; Scandalous&period; Back same way on cold New Years day

from Mid Hill&period; 300' drop to col and recovered height and steady plod on faint paths to plateau&period; Only 4 turbines in view until summit when about 30 others appeared to W and N&period; To trig 6124 at 15&period;30&period; Footprints in snow - 1 adult and 1 smaller&comma; plus dog&period; Cairnsmore&comma; Arran and Green Lowther&period;

A cold but clear Christmas Day jaunt with Shaky from Glen Afton&period; Parked short of Craigdarroch & took higher of two tracks above waterworks&period; R branch at the fork up to edge of forest near Black Hill & then followed boundary over Wedder Hill&comma; Millaneoch Hill to Windy Standard&period; At the time&comma; wind turbines were a novelty&lpar;&excl;&rpar; but the area is as good as ruined now&period; Curved generally E towards Alhang & on to Alwhat & Meikledodd Hill&period; With daylight running out we headed due W over rough stuff aiming at the Alwhat burn & forest firebreaks leading to track round reservoir back to the car&period; Met lady shepherd with dog on track who agreed that this was all much better than mince pies & booze in front of the telly&excl;

NotReallyABagger

25/12/2001

Forgotten

BLACKHILL

22/10/2000

KeithByTheC

08/07/2000

Bagged some time ago by mountain bike&comma; through the forest from the west&period; Had to push the last bit to the trig&comma; otherwise the whole route is rideable&period; This is likely to be the most interesting and aesthetically pleasing way to bag this hill given the huge wind farm spreading over this and neighbouring hills&period;